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    African American News Media: Fact Sheet

    Last updated June 2016 Black-oriented news media – one of the long-standing minority news genres in the U.S. – showed little substantive change over the 2014 to 2015 period. The overall number of newspapers aimed at this population – primarily community weeklies – remained steady, but there was some evidence of audience decline, a pattern […]

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    1. Orthodox Christianity’s geographic center remains in Central and Eastern Europe

    While the worldwide population of all non-Orthodox Christians has virtually quadrupled since 1910, the Orthodox population has merely doubled, from approximately 124 million to 260 million. And as the geographical center of the overall Christian population has shifted since 1910 from its centuries-old European base into developing nations in the Southern Hemisphere, most Orthodox Christians […]

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    1. Mixed views as some economies recover, others slow

    North America more upbeat than Europe What a difference a year can make – or possibly an election, a rise in the stock market and a falloff in the U.S. unemployment rate. The U.S. economy grew by 1.5% in 2016, down from 2.6% growth in 2015, according to OECD data. Nevertheless, six-in-ten people in the […]

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    1. The tarnished American brand

    The share of the global public that voices a favorable view of America is on the decline. Across the 37 countries that Pew Research Center has tracked over the past several years, only in Russia has the image of the United States improved by a large margin. Elsewhere, attitudes have taken a dramatic turn for […]

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    2. Orthodox Christians are highly religious in Ethiopia, much less so in former Soviet Union

    Orthodox Christians around the world display widely varying levels of religious observance. For example, while just 6% of Orthodox Christians in Russia say they attend church on a weekly basis, a large majority of Orthodox Christians in Ethiopia (78%) say they do this. Indeed, by several standard measures of religious observance, Orthodox Christians living in […]

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    Theme 4: Biases exist in algorithmically-organized systems

    There are two strands of thinking that tie together here. One is that the algorithm creators (code writers), even if they strive for inclusiveness, objectivity and neutrality, build into their creations their own perspectives and values. The other is that the datasets to which algorithms are applied have their own limits and deficiencies. Even datasets […]

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    2. Public divided on prospects for the next generation

    Americans, Canadians and Europeans generally pessimistic U.S. may be one of the richest countries in the world, with one of the highest per capita gross domestic products among major nations, but Americans are fairly pessimistic about economic prospects for their country’s children. Just 37% of Americans believe that today’s children will grow up to be […]

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    Gay Marriage Around the World

    A fact sheet provides an overview of the situation in the nations where same-sex marriage is legal nationwide as well as countries that allow it in certain jurisdictions.

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